333] ORGANIZATION FOR DAIRY EDUCATION 10 g 



(7) farm crops and farm management, (8) plant breeding, 

 (9) horticulture, (10) animal husbandry, (11) poultry 

 husbandry, (12) dairy industry, (13) farm mechanics, 

 (14) rural economy and sociology, (15) rural art, (16) 

 drawing, (17) pomology, (18) meteorology, (19) exten- 

 sion teaching, (20) forestry, and (21) rural education". 1 



" Most of the state agricultural colleges and some other 

 institutions offer courses in dairying, varying in length from 

 only a few weeks to four years." 2 In the dairy school of 

 the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 

 four-year, one-year, and two-week courses are offered. 

 The plan of giving both the intensive four-year courses as 

 well as the short practical courses in dairying is followed by 

 practically all the colleges. 



The four-year college course is intended for the leaders in 

 dairying. Some of the college graduates prepare for teach- 

 ing. Others drift into administrative work, into bureaus 

 of chemistry where dairy products are analyzed, into dairy 

 journalistic work, and into practical dairy specialization. 



The four-year college dairy course is too theoretical to 

 be taken by the ordinary farmer owning a dairy herd or by 

 the operator of the cheese factory or the creamery. These 

 men need more especially information concerning the prac- 

 tical phases of their work and less theory. In nearly all 

 colleges, therefore, short courses are provided to meet this 

 need. In the Wisconsin University " the winter dairy 

 course lasts 12 weeks and requires for admission one sea- 

 son's previous training in a creamery or cheese factory. A 

 summer dairy course is offered to a limited number of stu- 

 dents, who will be admitted without previous factory train- 



1 Circular 106, Office of Experiment Stations, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



2 Circular 204, Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



